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This was the first full day of classes since President Smith, acting on direct orders from statewide Chancellor Glenn Donkey, suspended Murray on Friday. The reaction of the B s. You came at an unusual press conference this morning at 11. White students and faculty members were asked

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to stay out of the gallery lounge during the press conference is Bs. You leaders read a list of 10 demands they're making on the college administration. Most of them relate to the establishment of a Department of Black Studies. But the point that obviously has become the

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most emotional issue is the reinstatement of Black Panther Murray and number 10 that our brother George Murray be maintained. His teaching positions on this college campus 1968 and 1969 academic year spokesman refused to discuss just what they strike on Wednesday will entail, but implied it will

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involve a confrontation with authorities. Dr. Joseph White, dean of undergraduate studies who took part in the conference, indicated he's in complete agreement with the B S, you and Murray, even to the right of black students to be prepared to defend themselves. A short time later, President

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Smith spoke to reporters He reiterated his commitment to increasing educational services for minority students, but said the financial picture of the colleges now so bad thousands of eligible students have already been turned away. 60 faculty members have been cut from the payroll, and it's quite possible

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no new students at all will be admitted in the spring semester. He was asked about the Wednesday strike plan. Well, there aren't there aren't many major educational institutions or district left that haven't had one or another kind of strike up to now, this probably will be

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our first if we have it, um, the There's no law against the strike. Uh, the what we do about a proposed student strike is something that we'll be working on now that we know that this is in the milk. Um, I don't have any major comment

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on that. If you say, uh, we have a crisis only 48 hours away, you know that's quite a lot of lead time for this college at this time. President Smith said that if the colleges to move forward effectively in the area of black studies, it's going

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to take the combined efforts of the students, the minority and ethnic communities, the legislators and the trustees in that order. He also warned that a strike or confrontation at this time might endanger the entire project. This is Claude Man, reporting from San Francisco State being and

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we're going to be treated as human beings right off the power to the people. Right on brothers and sisters. Right off. No longer sit back and allow Who doing that way. But you must say space

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Scott Base. Mhm. Sorry. It's okay. Okay. Yeah. If I have to go to jail. All right. But I think it's about time my generation got involved in this. There are a lot of people, not just me who feel as I do, and

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we're free to speak. Were free to say what we want to do. Books get written, magazine articles get written. People run for office on the basis of the strong feelings I hold, they don't go to jail. The young people do. You have to be male and

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between the ages of 18 and 26 if you believe it to the extent that a lot of we adults believe it and you have to come to the point we have to make a stand on it, you go to jail. Smith had spent much of the

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day talking with the faculty stressed that Tuesday is just a target date. Most of the problems that beset the campus still remain to be solved, and there is no assurance that the campus can be reopened that early. We have, uh, exploit the possibility of beginning to

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meet either tomorrow or Monday with student groups in there areas of their majors with some of the departmental staff. We have suggested that we try to point our work toward an opening of the campus on Tuesday. If, uh, that seems reasonable, and if we can get

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it done, uh, under a set of, uh, understandings and expectations that we can carry on an academic program, uh, without a massive police force on the campus, we have not made a commitment on that as yet. It's, uh, something will be considered through Monday afternoon, just

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a short time before President Smith's conference, a newly formed student organization met with the press. They call themselves the Committee for an Academic Environment, and they purport to speak for that vast silent majority. They wanted to express their concern over the present state of affairs, their

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wish to reopen the college and their opposition to any means for settling disputes which have a negative and disruptive effect on the peaceful activities of the campus. Their own conference fell victim to some of those activities. I'm saying the issue for this Committee for Academic Environment

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is to get this campus reopened. So if you want to prevent or present your views in an academic environment, fine. I'm not opposing that. No one on this is imposing that through this committee. Nobody's doing that. We just want the committee asks an immediate reopening of

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the school, and they call on the students involved in the most recent disruptions to end those disruptions and conduct their affairs in a a manner appropriate to an academic institution. In addition to that, they'd like to see an entirely new student body. Government elected more representative

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of the student body at large, and finally they called for the creation of an ombudsman to settle other disputes on campus. This is Claude Man, reporting from San Francisco State. Yeah,